A little update before Scream Fest while I work on the big stuff
As the VR player, you now have a wrist menu available when you have your hands empty. Right now the only option after opening it is to exit a match, but it's better than having to off yourself every time you wanted to do that. I tried to make it as non-intrusive as possible to avoid accidental activations.
Because the Halloween Event is a weird "hybrid" mode where you can currently go either single or multiplayer, I added a handy spectator cam that gets disabled if a monkey joins. This camera will evolve for future singleplayer-only modes. I've also started to look into adding LIV support, as the game is currently quite a bit awkward to stream.
Here's the spectator camera in action:
The Halloween Event has been a fun experiment on coop modes. However, the Mandrillians are certainly designed to be smashing the VR player's head in. I'll add more apt PC-controlled characters for coop missions in the future, when there's a good variety of AI enemies to fight. Speaking of which...
I'm making good advances in enemy AI, which means there will be mobile enemies pretty soon. At first I didn't have much faith in the integration of game mechanics with AI, so I wasn't expecting to have NPCs much more complex than the insectoids, but that has changed. You might be having some AI monkeys added to the mix sooner than later.
After the Halloween Event ends, it will be available on the reworked Arcade Hub. Here's a glimpse of how it will look. It will be way more focused than the old "virtual training" area, with everything neatly packed in touch menus. The old hub was too confusing, and forcing the VR player to walk a couple meters to select different modules was in all honesty a stupid design decision.
Happy Halloween!